Paulinskill Valley Trail (Swartswood, NJ to Warbasse Junction, NJ)

Today we did our final full section (#4 on the map) of the Paulinskill Valley Trail, 12.5 miles total (6.25 miles each way). There is only 1 1/2 miles lefted to do but we has to combine that wif part of the Sussex Branch Trail to makes it long enuf for us.



We was a little worried on the way there coz it was very foggy after the rains from tropical storm Danny had passed throo yesterday.


But once we got started on our hikings, the sunbeams camed out and maded the fogs go away. (But not until after mom was hasing a really bad hair day - yikes.)


This is the old railroad mile markers wot we passed wot says how far to Jersey City:


Here I is up hi on a giant rock:


And hasing a good time:


I has a sekrit to shares wif you. Does you noes where they hides the chilluns' yello skule busses in the summer? I found the hidey spot. There was a gabillion yello skule busses in the woods!


Here we is where the Paulinskill Trail and the Sussex Branch Trail crosses over each udder. I is sitting rite there! (We is working on doing the whole Sussex Branch trail, too, so we will come by here again sumtime.)



Mom ordered me the kewlest water cup from dogtoys.com. I dinnot really like the udder thing we was using for waters but I like this and I dranked lots from it. When I is done, it goes flat like magic and slides rite into mom's fanny pack. We gotted the little 1 cup size coz I just needed it for quick drinks and it needed to be small to carry wif us. It is perfekt.



There was no waters for me to do swimmings in this time but we did find a really kewl waterfalls.


This is litter wot I founded on the trail and picked up in my poop bag. Not only did I picks it up, I tooked it home and putted it in our resikling. Even tho mom always has a poop bag just in case, we has never needed to use it coz I donnot do poos anywhere udder than my own yard. I donnot litter. So we used my bag to carry the litters in. Please do not bees a litter bug and makes me has to kleen up the messes wot makes our natures ugly.

Awards!

I gotted my first ever dog blog awards from my fwend Anna the shepherd over at Anna's Dog Blog. Thank you Anna!

I think the way this werks is I pass the awards on to five of my doggie fwends for their blogs.

Lou and his sis Pebbles over at Lou, Momma's Boy
Sylvie and Mugsy over at SylvieDog, Cookie Fiend
Lainey over at Lainey's Pawtique & Bakery (her mom makes the bestest cookies!)
Teagan over at Teagan Times in the UK
Marely & Lola's Terrier Life over in the UK

Stop on over and give these fwends of mine a woofout at their bloggies!

Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park, NJ (New Brunswick - South Bound Brook)

Today we did the hiking wot is in lite bloo on the map for a total of 11 miles. (The udder colors is wot we has already done.)


We hasn't been to the D&R Canal State Park in a while but we figured we had better stay as close as possible to home today. It looked like rains when we left and the weather.com peeples said we was supposed to has this kind of wevver:


But we was luckee and only had a few drops of rains. Not like I cared coz I planned on doing swimming and getting my furs wet anyways.

So when we gotted to the hikings, we first had to go over a bridge from where we parked the car. It was a very old bridge, or well, it used to be. The sign sayed it was builded in 1895 but then it broked and the peeples could not fix it no mores so with the old parts they builded the new bridge in 1991/1992.


Here I is going over the bridge. Hai!


We didn't see mile markings on the D&R Canal towpath afore, but this time we seened some. We think it is how many miles to the end of the canal towpath in Trenton and coming back the other way the number was different coz it was how many miles left to the other end where we started. Mile number 38 wif 6 on the other side is missing :(. We looked all over and could not find it. Mebbe they needed to use it to build that bridge.


Mom and I was very sad to see so much litter and grafitti on this part of the trail. Why does bad peeples has to do that?


But there was still some pritty parts.

The Raritan River:


Jogging along wif some joggers:


Crossing the spillway:


Swimming:


A big heron that we sawed, and we don't see many of them in these parts:


And here is just some pritty pictures my mom tooked of stuff we sawed playing around wif the camera:

Hoo Dunnit?

The seen of the krime:


The suspekts:



The boobie trap:


The underkover surveylens footage:


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Paulinskill Valley Trail (Swartswood, NJ - Stillwater, NJ)

So today we hiked another section of the Paulinskill Valley Trail but only about 8.5 miles this time. These are the old railroad mile markers we passed wot say how far it be to Jersey City.


We only hiked 8.5 miles today coz it was very hot, hazee and hoomid as you can see in this pic from our drive to the hikings:


As we was driving through the town of Newton to get to the hikings, look at what we sawed:


Oh noes! When mom pulled up next to the deer to take her pic and rolled down the window, I whimpered at the deer coz I was very worried


Then right before the parking for the hikings trail:

No worries, their mommy was wif them. She dinnot fitted in the camera.

So we gotted to the hikings trail.


Look at all these mushrooms growing on the twee!


Hmmm. Wot is this? Did they used to make fwosty paws here long times ago?


Then all of a suddens...

♫ DUM ♪ DA ♪ DUM ♪ DUM ♫


Wot to do?


We was looking down the steep hill (it was much steeper than it looks in the picture) trying to decide if'n we should give a try going down when a nice man stopped his truck down on the street, rolled down his window and yelled up at us where to go to get back on the trail on the udder sides. Yay! We did it. But it would has been nice if'n the park peeples putted up a detoor sign, no?


We could see the Paulinskill Lake but it was too steep down to gets to it. I was hot and hoomid and needed to get my furs wet. Bummer.


So then we sawed anudder old fwosty paw place but it was rilly all weeds. I sure could has used a fwosty paw in the heats.


Finally, mom founded a way to the lake for me! It was pwobably not allowed coz it was pwivate pwoperty, but it looked like commershal pwoperty so mom figured it would be OK since it was not somebody's house. I swammed speedy quick so we did not gets caught. It was so refreshing.


Then we headed back and droved home.


Mebbe we can has some dry air from Kanada next weekend so we can do longer hikings again. We mite even be able to finish up the Paulinskill Trail so our paws will has been on every mile of it and then we can finish up some udder trails we has already started.